IS— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 20,1978 19-ton tractor has all the luxuries No symbol of modern agriculture suggests its bigness any more than the four-wheel drive tractors that are becoming so common. Almost every farmer with more than a few hundred acres owns at least one of those monsters. The major equipment manufacturers all have a complete line of them * even some relatively small companies have been able to get into the business and compete quite effectively with lie old line tractor makers. Today’s farmer, who is thinking of a bigger tractor, may be bewildered by the Raise With 6 nd ul me Corrugated asphalt Roofing & Siding Panels guaranteed 25 years. USE THE ASPHALT ROOFING/SIDING THAT: • insulates like cork • installs easily on 2 foot centers • will not rust • will not corrode from fertilizers or chemicals • ABERDEEN, Md. 215 S Philadelphia Blvd (Route 40) • CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. 840 Wayne Avenue • HARRISBURG, Pa. 2810 Paxton Street • STEWARTSTOWN, Pa, many sizes, shapes, brands, options, and prices available to him. A careful buyer can pick up a new, small four wheel drive tractor for no more than $40,000 or he can go all the way and spend as much as $120,000. For that top figure he gets a machine that will pull almost anything he can fasten behind it, one that will go in any kind of weather, and provide the operator with all the comforts of home. A manufacturer in Georgia is building giant tractors, which are con sidered to be the Rolls Royce of farm tractors. The original designer-builder THE LUMBER YARD iffers a choice of built-in colors quires no special tools is lightweight and flexible DULINE IS AVAILABLE AT: • ALLENTOWN, Pa. • BEL AIR, Md. 2069 28th St. Southwest 722 Bel Air Road • GETTYSBURG, Pa.,*.- 27 North Stratton Street • HERSHEY, Pa. 265 West Chocolate Ave • WAYNESBORO, Pa. Park & Madison Streets was Jones Earl Copeland of Texas. Copeland started out in the machinery business and decided he could build a better tractor. So at age 27, with $lO,OOO of borrowed money, he set out to build his first one - the Copeland 6500. Five years later, in 1969, he made a deal with a Texas rice farmer, J.D. Woods, to design some special tractors that would not bog down in his rice fields. They proved so successful that everybody wanted one so the two men went into a partnership. The resulting company was Woods and Copeland Manufacturing, Inc., which has since been acquired by • HAGERSTOWN, Mi 50 East Wilson Blvd • LEBANON VALLEY, Pa. 1236 E. Main St, Annville • WEST SHORE 1021 State St, Lemoyne, Pa the Rome Plow Company of Cedartown, Ga. The big four-wheel drive tractors have come on the scene very rapidly with bright prospects predicted for them by most manufacturers. They have power, the flotation, the maneuverability to perform almost any farm job. They’ll do anything from chisel plowing and heavy disking to planting corn, owners say. About two years ago, Woods & Copeland, Inc. of Wharton, Tex. delivered what is believed to be the most powerful farm tractor every made in the world. Elmo Meiners, an Illinois EASY TO HANDLE 35" x 79" sheets Designed to install on 24" centers. 4 *5” As Per Sheet (Smooth Finish) • CARLISLE, Pa. 450 East North Street • HANOVER, Pa. jje 316 Jumper Lane • MARTINSBURG, W. Va. 1411 North Queen Street • YORK, Pa. Gillespie Drive, West York Industrial Pk com farmer, was the man who placed the order, and the 600 horsepower behemoth was especially built to his specifications. 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